Bright Data alternatives
10 proxy providers ranked against Bright Data on published price and features. Evomi comes first. Each entry shows where it beats Bright Data and where it falls short.
Ranking
Evomi advertises the lowest base residential rate in this comparison ($0.49/GB on a subscription) and lets you add filters such as fraud score or minimum uptime as paid upgrades.
Verified November 4, 2026
Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) sells self-service proxies with pay-as-you-go traffic and one of the widest product ranges of the mid-market: residential, mobile, ISP and datacenter.
Verified November 4, 2026
Thordata is a newer provider advertising 100M+ residential IPs from $0.65/GB, plus ISP proxies, mobile proxies, datacenter IPs and a Web Scraper API.
Verified November 4, 2026
DataImpulse sells pay-as-you-go residential traffic at $1/GB (down to $0.80/GB at 1 TB) with no expiry, plus a pricier premium tier.
Verified November 4, 2026
Oxylabs is an enterprise-oriented provider with a 175M-IP residential pool, ISP and datacenter proxies, and a large scraping API line-up.
Verified November 4, 2026
Byteful (formerly Ping Proxies) has a mid-sized residential pool, a transparent dashboard showing IP availability per location, and a traffic-optimization engine that routes non-essential requests through datacenter IPs.
Verified November 4, 2026
Rayobyte is a long-standing datacenter specialist that also sells residential and ISP proxies, with non-expiring packages that scale down in price.
Verified November 4, 2026
Webshare is best known for cheap datacenter and ISP proxies with a fully self-service, customizable subscription. Its residential network was added later and has grown quickly.
Verified November 4, 2026
NodeMaven focuses on IP quality: residential IPs are screened against several databases and can be filtered by quality, speed and pool size before use.
Verified November 4, 2026
SOAX sells a 155M-IP residential network with very flexible rotation (by time, by request count, or strict sessions) and lets you mix mobile IPs into the same pool.
Verified November 4, 2026
Scores are computed from published pricing and specifications (price 35%, reach 20%, features 20%, support 10%, trial 15% for proxies). They do not include performance benchmarks. Read the methodology. Some links are affiliate links; they never change the ranking.
Detail
9.0 / 10
$49 / 100 GB ($0.49/GB)
Evomi advertises the lowest base residential rate in this comparison ($0.49/GB on a subscription) and lets you add filters such as fraud score or minimum uptime as paid upgrades.
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7.3 / 10
$4 / 1 GB
Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) sells self-service proxies with pay-as-you-go traffic and one of the widest product ranges of the mid-market: residential, mobile, ISP and datacenter.
Better than Bright Data on
Falls short of Bright Data on
7.1 / 10
from $0.65 / GB (headline price)
Thordata is a newer provider advertising 100M+ residential IPs from $0.65/GB, plus ISP proxies, mobile proxies, datacenter IPs and a Web Scraper API.
Better than Bright Data on
Falls short of Bright Data on
7.0 / 10
$5 starter / $50 / 50 GB ($1/GB)
DataImpulse sells pay-as-you-go residential traffic at $1/GB (down to $0.80/GB at 1 TB) with no expiry, plus a pricier premium tier.
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Falls short of Bright Data on
6.5 / 10
$30 / 5 GB ($6/GB)
Oxylabs is an enterprise-oriented provider with a 175M-IP residential pool, ISP and datacenter proxies, and a large scraping API line-up.
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Falls short of Bright Data on
6.5 / 10
$3.25 / 1 GB
Byteful (formerly Ping Proxies) has a mid-sized residential pool, a transparent dashboard showing IP availability per location, and a traffic-optimization engine that routes non-essential requests through datacenter IPs.
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Falls short of Bright Data on
6.4 / 10
$4 / 1 GB
Rayobyte is a long-standing datacenter specialist that also sells residential and ISP proxies, with non-expiring packages that scale down in price.
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Falls short of Bright Data on
6.3 / 10
$3.50 / 1 GB
Webshare is best known for cheap datacenter and ISP proxies with a fully self-service, customizable subscription. Its residential network was added later and has grown quickly.
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Falls short of Bright Data on
5.8 / 10
$8.50 / 2 GB ($4.25/GB)
NodeMaven focuses on IP quality: residential IPs are screened against several databases and can be filtered by quality, speed and pool size before use.
Better than Bright Data on
Falls short of Bright Data on
5.7 / 10
$25 / 5–12.5 GB
SOAX sells a 155M-IP residential network with very flexible rotation (by time, by request count, or strict sessions) and lets you mix mobile IPs into the same pool.
Better than Bright Data on
Falls short of Bright Data on
FAQ
Evomi ranks first among the 10 tools compared with Bright Data, with a data score of 9.0/10. The ranking uses published prices and features, not performance tests, so pick the tool whose strengths match your workload.
Yes. Evomi, Decodo, Byteful, Webshare offer a free trial. Limits change often, so confirm quotas on the vendor's site.
Evomi has the lowest verified entry price in this comparison ($49 / 100 GB ($0.49/GB)). Entry price is only the starting point: check what is included at the volume you need.
Points buyers raise about Bright Data: Complex platform for beginners; KYC can be strict for advanced use cases. None of these is a deal-breaker for every team, but they are the usual reasons to compare.
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